On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:46:36 -0800 (PST) delancey <[email protected]> writes: > > > > ==We should consider these facts when evaluating the singularity. > Will it be a spinning out of control, or will social factors > continue to improve? > > This singularity -- is it blue? > > I'm sorry, but 'the singularity' in non-ironic usage > simultaneously puzzles me and makes me laugh. It's got such > magic-think aspects to it, and yet it's all so bloody numeric. And > folks like Vinge approach it with such a sense of inevitability that > they think 'ways it couldnot-happen' is a clever time-waster of a > parlor game.
To be fair, Vernor Vinge himself has examined non-singularity future alternatives: http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/010247.html http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=memelist.html?m=1%23696 http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0696.html?printable=1 (print-friendly version of the above) http://media.longnow.org/seminars/salt-020070215-vinge/salt-020070215-vin ge-web.mp3 (.mp3 audio of the above, plus questions and answers) Frank Check out my web page at: http://www.geocities.com/stardolphin2/link3.htm "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy ____________________________________________________________ Find Business Careers here. The source for New Careers. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTEKqcHNjj3VwBqGMuhogmEKaHDMF8YaDA6nf0DwT8IoDcy7L13LBW/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
